The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-08


sonata, are diabolic fugre, are demoniac phan-
tasy are grand march Of doom, are allegro of
perdition.
But if in this world things in general are out
Oh tune to our trail ear, how much more so to
ears angelic and deific. 1t takes a skilled artist
iully to appreciate disagreement of sound.
Many have no capacity to detect a defect of
musical execution, and, though there were in
one bar as many offenses against harmony as
could crowd IN between the lower of the bass
ana the higher q Of the soprano, it would give
them no discomfort, while on the forehead of
the educated artist beads Of perspration would
stand out as result of the narrowing 'disso-
nance While an amateur was performing on
q piano and had Just struck he wrong chord,
John Sebastian Bach, the immortal composer,
entered the room, and the amateur rose in en-
barrassment, and Bach rushed past the host,
who stepped forward to greet him, and before
the Keyboard had stopped vibrating, put his
adroit hand upon the keys and changed the
painful inharmony into glorious cadence Then
Bach turned and gave salutation to the host
who had invited him.
But the worst of all discords is moral dis
cord. If society and the world are painfully
dlscordant to imperfect man, what must they
be to perfect God. People try to define what
SIN Is. 1t seems to me that sin is getting out
OF harmony with God, a disagreement with
his holiness, with his purity, with his love.
with his commands, our will clashing with
his will, the infinite dashing against the inf
mite. the frail against the puissant, the created
against the Creator If n thousand
musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-pis-
ton, and trumpet and violincello. and
hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and
stringed instruments that ever gathered in n
Dusseldorf jubilee should resolve that they
should play out of tune, and put concord to
the rack, and make the place wild with Shrek
ing, and grating, and rasping sounds, they
could not make such a pandemonium as that
which RACES in sinful soul when God listens
to the play of its thoughts, passions and emo
tions-discord, lifelong dfscord, maddening
discord The world noys moro for discord Thar
it does for consonance' Hioh nrices have been
paid for music. One man gave two hundred
and twenty-five dollars to hear the Swedish
songstress in New York. and another Six hun
dred and TWENTY-FIVE dollars TO hear her in
Boston. and anotEer siy hnndred and t;ftv dol
lars to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices
have been paid for sweet sounds Int far mora
has been paid for discord. The Crimean war
cost one billion seven hundred million dollars.
and our American civil war over nine and
half billion dollars, and the war debts Of mo-
fessed Christian nations are about fifteen hill
lion dollars The world NAYS for this rod ticket
which admits it to the sStnrnaIia of hroI,en
bones, and death agonies, and DESTROYED cities
and nlouphed Graves. and Crushed haerts onY
amount Of monev Satan asks. Discordi nc,
cordl
Rut Tbova 70 toll ,,o,, +lo+ 4,,o +,,o4 A.,
n, ornin etors o+ S,lrO tio sHls o.S .ile
the wns5S az tiio laying oi
MOZ6Tf'S wac
posed one night when he was several times
overpowered With sleen- and artists sov they
can tell the places in the 1nnsic whara Ia IvoS
falling asleep. and the nlaces where he awar,
ened So the overture of the morning stars
SnolSen of in NV tevt hos boo,,
asIeep, but If will avalon and
be more prandIv rendered nv tho e1aninct
stars of the worlds existence than nv Un thss
morning stars, and the yesnors will he sweeter
than the mathis The work of ali GOOD men
reform associations is to brino the race baci, 70
the original harmony. The rehaiIioms boort 70
be attuned. social life To he oftnnnd oonoraor
cial ethics to be attuned, internationalitv to be
attuned. hemispheres to he attnned Bpt nv
what force and in what wav?
In olden time the choriSters had a tuninq
fork with two pr0nos. and thew would s+,;Ira +
on the back of new or mnsic rack. and mt II
to the ear, and then start the time. and ali the
other voices wonId ioin' In ,nodern orchas4ro
tbe leader has coTniete instrument r;nbtits
attuned. and he sounds that and ali the 00tbayy
performers turn the KEYS of their Instruments
to make them correspond, and sound the bow
over the string and listen and sound out over
again, until all the keys are screwed to concert
pitch, and the discords melt into one great
symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the ba-
ton taps, and audiences are raptured with
Schuman's Paradise and the Peri" or Ros-
sini's 'Stabat Mater" OR Bach's "Magnifcat'
in D, of Gounod's Redemption"
Now, our world can never be attuned bv an
imperfect instrument Even a Cremona would
not do. Heaven has ordained Che onIv instrn-
ment and it is made out of the wood Of fine
cross, and the voices that accompany # are i'm
ported voices cantatrices of the first Christmas
night, whom heaven serenaded the earth with
"Glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace, goodwill to men" Lest we start too
far off and Get lost in the peneralities. we had
better begin with ourselves, Get our own hearts
and life in harmony with the eternal Christ
Oh, for his almighty spirit to at-
tune u.s. to chord our will with
His will. to modulate our life with His life
and bring us into unison with ali that is nnre
ana self-Sacrifcine and heavenly. The strings
Of our nature are all broken and twisted and
the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anvtbin@
mellihuous. The instrument made for beaveSS
to play on has been roughly twanged and
struck by influences worldlV and demoniac, 81
master hand of Christ, restore this sniff and
fractured and despoiled and unstrnng natnre
until first it shall wall out for orr sin and then
thrill with divine pardon,
The whole world mnst o1so ba o++,,,,oa -,
the same mower A few davS a%o yros in +hSS
Fairbanks weigbne ecole co WY tio
mont Siv hlSndrcd I'ande anJ ~ - "
never had strike Comnle+e hor 10y AI I've
tween Labor conitaI the Of pe-
of veare in +bair baantifni 20 u s0oioS
mansions of Tho roon"foctnrnrs re- y VIC
ton and Christian behavior made tbe ~ aron+